rose_of_pain | Fai (doll costume) progress

This is mostly for Alyce to see but I've been working on a Fai costume for her doll and thought I'd share some progress now that the shirt is done. I did mock-ups for all 3 layers already so just gotta make the coats and stuff.

The front. Obviously minus the little clasps as I haven't made them yet nor put any snaps on the shirt so thus the pins where the snaps will be. XP

The back.

I decided to make it long sleeved because as revealed in chapter-whatever-it-is the shirt is in fact long sleeved and Fai just wears long black gloves over top of them. Sadly its kinda way beyond my skills to make gloves for dolls so I figured this was the best idea for it. Unless Alyce prefers short sleeves and I can cut them or try to make like a fake little black sleeve thingy that would just end before the wrist.

I freaking hate tiny bias tape for the record. The stupid stuff (which I made btw as the only shade of blue it comes in in that size is dark blue) like refused to cooperate at all and I might take it all off and resew it on because the stitching is kinda embarrassing on it, truth be told. T_T Despite pinning it down, it kept moving and being uneven and stuff and didn't really stay where I had it pinned anyways. Argh. x_x

Ended up lining the shirt though I didn't plan to originally 'cause I then realized the snaps wouldn't work the way I want them to without it. XP Though I'm annoyed that you can see the blue bias tape through the shirt on the other side even with the lining. So maybe I should just take that bias tape off of that part so its not showing through?

~Lyn